JPH03461B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a sanitary cleaning device that is combined with a toilet bowl and has a means for cleaning a part of a human body to be cleaned, a means for drying the part to be cleaned after cleaning, and a deodorizing means.

Generally, this type of sanitary cleaning device is combined with a Western-style toilet bowl 1 as shown in FIG. The so-called toilet bowl 1 is equipped with a means for spraying cleaning water from a nozzle 4 for cleaning, a means for drying the area to be cleaned by blowing hot air after cleaning, and a means for sucking in the odor inside the toilet bowl 1 and deodorizing it through a deodorizing agent. It is configured as a multi-function device. To explain more specifically, the sanitary washing device sucks water from a low tank 5 installed in the toilet, sucks water from a pump 5 that pressure-feeds it to the nozzle 4,
A pump 6 for pressure-feeding water to the nozzle 4, a hot water tank 7 provided between the pump 6 and the nozzle 4 and equipped with a heater for heating the washing water, and generating hot air for drying the part of the human body to be washed. a drying device 9 consisting of a motor 8, a fan, and a heater (not shown);
A fan and motor (both not shown) that suck in the odor in the toilet bowl 1 and a deodorizer tank 10
A deodorizing device 11 and other operation parts 12 and 13
It's getting more familiar.

By the way, although it is useful because it has many functions, it is necessary to install separate motors and fans for the drying means and deodorizing means, which increases the size of the entire device and increases manufacturing costs. This is undesirable from the viewpoints of energy consumption and power consumption.

Although it is conceivable to simply have one fan device that serves as both the drying means and the deodorizing means, it is not possible to install a heater and a deodorizing agent with relatively large ventilation resistance in one ventilation path. There is a problem above. In other words, when hot air is sent out for drying purposes, the deodorizing agent in the ventilation path acts as a large resistance, making it impossible to blow out the hot air strongly, reducing air blowing efficiency, and requiring the use of a motor with greater capacity. It will stop happening.

The present invention takes these conventional problems into consideration, and uses one fan device as both a drying means and a deodorizing means.
The object of the present invention is to provide a sanitary washing device which does not have problems due to the common use of the one fan device, based on the idea of making the device small and simple.

In order to achieve this object, the present invention provides a sanitary cleaning device equipped with a cleaning device, a deodorizing device, and a drying device, and includes a fan section for sucking odor from the deodorizing device and blowing air from the drying device. a first wind barrel having a deodorizing member provided inside the communicating body;
A second valve that communicates with the fan portion and has a heater provided therein.
There is a system in which a wind cylinder is provided, and the first wind cylinder and the second wind cylinder are selectively opened to the fan section by switching dampers.

According to this configuration, the elements of the fan section required for the deodorizing device and the elements of the fan section required for the drying device can be used in common, making it possible to reduce the size, weight, and improve economic efficiency.

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. 1 to 9.

In FIG. 1, 14 is a toilet bowl, 15 is a toilet seat with a heater (not shown), 16 is a lid, and 17
is the main body of the sanitary cleaning device attached to the rear of the toilet bowl 14.

The sanitary cleaning device main body 17 is constructed as shown in FIG. Note that the outer cover is omitted in this drawing.

In FIG. 2, 18 is a base member, and on one side of its upper part there is a pump 19 that sucks water from a low tank (not shown), a solenoid valve 20 connected to the discharge side of this pump 19, and a solenoid valve 20 connected to the discharge side of the pump 19. A hot water tank 21 provided on the downstream side and having a heater (not shown), and a nozzle 22 connected to the hot water tank 21 and disposed inside the toilet bowl 14 to spout cleansing water are provided. , an adjustment operation section 23 for adjusting the water temperature of the toilet seat, etc. In addition, 24 in the figure
is a starting switch which is activated by the weight applied when a user sits on the toilet seat 15 and energizes a fan device to be described later.

On the other side of the upper part of the base member 18, there is a wind barrel component 25, a motor 26 and a fan 27 shown in FIG. It includes an adjustment section 30 and the like. In addition, 31 in the figure is a timer, and after the user leaves the toilet seat 15 after use and the start switch 24 is turned off, the motor 26 is turned off.
This is to maintain the drive for a certain period of time.

The relationship between the wind barrel component 25, the motor 26, and the fan 27 is configured as shown in FIG.
That is, the wind cylinder component 5 has a fan chamber 32 at one end.
It has a first wind barrel 33 and a second wind barrel 34. the first and second wind cylinders 33;
Openings 35 and 36 at one end of the toilet bowl 34 open into the fan chamber 32 in a coplanar relationship, and openings 37 and 38 at the other end are located at the edge of the central portion of the base member 18 and open into the fan chamber 32 in a coplanar relationship. It is turning inward. Further, on the face plate (top plate in this embodiment) which is orthogonal to the openings 35 and 36 of the wind cylinders 33 and 34 of the fan chamber 32, there is a Openings 39 and 40 are formed having substantially the same shape as the openings 35 and 36 (see FIG. 4). Inside the fan chamber 32 is a motor 26 and a sirotsk type fan 2 directly connected to the motor.
7 is installed. Furthermore, dampers 41 are provided in the openings 35 and 36 of the wind barrels 33 and 34. This damper 41 is connected to the shaft 4 as shown in FIG.
2, a first damper plate 43 and a second damper plate 44 are arranged in parallel in the axial direction. The first damper plate 43 and the second damper plate 44 protrude on planes that are perpendicular to each other. The first damper plate 43 has a shape protruding from one side of the shaft 42, and the second damper plate 44 consists of a pair of plate pieces 44a and 44b protruding from both sides of the shaft 42.
The plate pieces 44a, 44b of the first damper plate 43 and the second damper plate 44 respectively close the openings 35, 36 of the wind barrels 33, 34 and the openings 39, 40 of the fan chamber 32. It is shaped like this. Furthermore, an operating piece 45 for operating a switch to be described later is protruded from the tip of one plate piece 44b of the second damper plate 44.
The damper 41 is connected to the openings 39, 40 of the fan chamber 32 and the wind barrel 3, as shown in FIGS. 7 and 8.
A shaft 42 is placed on the joining line of the openings 35 and 36 of 3 and 34.
It is pivoted along the Therefore, the first damper plate 43 is in a relationship of opening and closing the opening 35 of the first wind barrel 33 and the first opening 39 of the fan chamber 32, and the first plate piece 44a of the second damper plate 44 opens and closes the opening 36 of the second wind barrel 34, and the second plate piece 44b opens and closes the second opening 40 of the fan chamber 32. Furthermore, the second plate piece 44b
When the second opening 40 of the fan chamber 32 is closed, the operating piece 45 protruding from the end thereof presses the drying heater switch 46 provided at the edge of the opening 40 to turn it on. have a relationship. One end of the shaft 42 of the damper 41 is the seventh
As shown in FIG. 8 and FIG.
8 and 49 to an operating knob 50, and by rotating the operating knob 50, the damper 4 is
1 can be switched. The shaft 42
One end portion is formed as a square shaft portion 51 as shown in FIG. 9, and is held between two elastic plates 53 and 54 whose both ends are held by a holding member 52. Therefore, the shaft 42 makes an articulated rotation of 90 degrees,
And this rotational position is kept stable. More specifically, as shown in FIG. 9b, the square shaft portion 51 has a cross section that is not a regular quadrilateral but is a quadrilateral deformed like a rhombus with acute angles and obtuse angles. Therefore, when it is pressed between two parallel elastic plates 53 and 54, it receives a force that tends to rotate it in one direction (counterclockwise in the drawing) as shown by arrow A in the drawing. Therefore, the operating piece 45 of the plate piece 44b strongly pushes the switch 46, and the first and second damper plates 43, 44 are pressed against the edge of the opening to be closed.

A deodorizer loading port 5 is provided in a part of the first wind barrel 33.
5, and a deodorizer card cartridge 56 filled with a deodorizer such as activated carbon is inserted from the deodorizer loading port 55. A heater 57 is installed inside the second wind cylinder 34 to generate warm air. Therefore, the first wind cylinder 33 is used as a deodorizing wind cylinder, and the second wind cylinder 34 is configured as a drying wind cylinder. Note that these wind barrel structures are integrally molded from synthetic resin such as polypropylene.

Next, the operation of the sanitary cleaning device having the above configuration will be explained. When the user sits on the toilet seat 15, the start switch 24 is turned on due to weight, and the motor 26 is turned on.
is energized, and the fan 27 rotates. Note that the heater of the toilet seat 15 generates heat by being energized in advance. By setting the drying and deodorizing operation unit 28 to the deodorizing side, deodorizing operation is performed as will be described in detail later. When the user finishes his errands, he operates the pump 19 as appropriate and sprays warmed washing water from the nozzle 22 to wash the user's area to be cleaned. After the washing, drying,
The deodorizing operation section 28 is switched and hot air is blown out from the opening 38 to dry the area to be cleaned. Thereafter, the drying and deodorizing operation unit 28 is returned to the deodorizing side. When the user leaves the toilet seat 15, the start switch 24 is turned off, but after the deodorizing operation is performed for a certain period of time due to the action of the timer 31, the power is turned off.

As mentioned earlier, this invention uses one motor 2
6 and the fan 27 for deodorizing and drying, a feature is that the drying heater is controlled when switching the wind cylinder. This device has a fan chamber 32 at one end of the wind cylinder component 25,
Openings 35 and 36 at one end of a first wind barrel 33 equipped with a deodorizing member such as a deodorizing cartridge and a second wind barrel 34 equipped with a heater 57 are arranged on one surface with respect to the fan chamber 32, and Openings 39 and 40 respectively corresponding to the openings 35 and 36 provided in the fan chamber 32 are provided, and opening and closing of these openings are controlled by the rotation of the damper 41, thereby allowing the first air to flow. The cylinder 33 and the second wind cylinder 34 are selectively opened to the fan chamber 32, and deodorizing and drying operations are selected.

That is, based on the shape of the damper 41 shown in FIG. 9, when the operation knob 50 is placed in the switching position as shown in FIG.
3 is opened, and the corresponding first opening 39 of the fan chamber 32 is closed. on the other hand,
Among the second damper plates 44 of the damper 41, the plate piece 44a closes the opening 36 of the second wind barrel 34,
Furthermore, the corresponding opening 40 of the fan chamber 32 is not closed by the plate piece 44b. The operating piece 45 of the plate piece 44b is the switch 4.
6, the heater 57 in the second wind barrel 34 is not energized and does not generate heat. Therefore, in the state shown in FIG. 7, only the first wind cylinder 33 is associated with the fan 27, and the rotation of the fan 27 sucks the odor inside the toilet bowl 14 through the opening 37. When passing through the deodorizer, the air is deodorized and released from the opening 39 of the fan chamber 32. And the second wind cylinder 34 is not functioning at all. In other words, only the deodorizing function is available.

Next, when the operating knob 50 is switched as shown in FIG. 8, the damper 41 is rotated approximately 90 degrees. In this state, the first damper plate 43 closes the opening 35 of the first wind barrel 33, and the plate piece 44a of the second damper plate 44 closes the opening 35 of the second wind barrel 34.
The plate piece 44b closes the opening 40 of the fan chamber 32. Then, the actuating piece 45 presses the switch 46 to turn it on, and the heater 57 in the second wind barrel 34 is turned on.
is energized to cause the heater 57 to generate heat. Therefore, only the second wind cylinder 34 is associated with the fan 27, and the first wind cylinder 33 does not function at all. Then, as the fan 27 rotates, outside air is sucked in through the opening 39 of the fan chamber 32, forced into the second wind cylinder 33, warmed by the heater 57, and blown out through the opening 38 to clean the human body. Spray it on the area to dry it after cleaning. In particular, the heater 57 in the second wind barrel 34 is energized only when the operating knob 50 is switched to the dry mode system, that is, it generates heat only when the second wind barrel 34 is ventilated. This eliminates the risk of burnout due to abnormal heating caused by heat generation when there is no ventilation in the second wind cylinder 34 in the deodorizing mode, making it extremely safe.

Note that in the drying mode, since the first wind cylinder 33 is cut off, the deodorizing cartridge 56
This is regardless of the ventilation of the second wind barrel 34, that is, there is no problem of a decrease in ventilation efficiency due to the deodorizing cartridge 56.

In switching the damper 41, since there is a square shaft part 51 at the end of the shaft 42 of the damper 41, and this part is sandwiched between two elastic plates 53 and 54, the rotation of the damper 41 can be switched almost immediately. It is performed at a 90° angle. Especially the damper plates 43, 4
4 is attached to one shaft 42, so by rotating the shaft 42, each damper moves simultaneously with a constant angle between each damper plate,
The openings for each air style can be opened and closed reliably, and the deodorizing mode and drying mode can be switched reliably.

Furthermore, as shown in FIG. 9b, since the square shaft portion 51 is deformed into a diamond shape and is pressed by the elastic plates 53 and 54, the shaft 42 can be slightly rotated in one direction while being fixed. energized damper plate 4
3, 44 and the switch 46 is turned on by the operating piece 45. In the present invention, the first and second wind cylinders do not necessarily need to be integrally molded, and may be arranged side by side. Further, the fan is not limited to a Sirotskov fan, and the heater in the wind barrel may be a honeycomb-shaped heater made of a positive temperature resistance element instead of a nichrome wire heater. Further, the cleaning function member and the toilet seat heating configuration are not limited to those shown in the drawings.

As explained in the embodiments above, the present invention uses one fan for both deodorization and drying, making the device compact and
It can be lightweight and simple, and has the effect of greatly reducing manufacturing costs. Moreover, the deodorizing element does not have a negative effect on ventilation during drying, and the drying heater only generates heat when in drying mode.
There is no abnormal heat generation when there is no ventilation, and the sanitary cleaning device has excellent performance and safety.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is an external perspective view of a sanitary cleaning device according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing the configuration of the main parts, and FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the configuration of the deodorizing function section and drying function section of the same device. FIG. 4 is a perspective view of the copper component, FIG. 5, FIG. 6, FIG. 7, and FIG. Figures a and b are a perspective view of a damper for switching wind cylinders and a sectional view of its shaft, and Figure 10 is a perspective view of an example of a conventional sanitary cleaning device. 14... Toilet bowl, 15... Toilet seat, 17... Sanitary cleaning device body, 18... Base member, 19... Pump, 21... Hot water tank, 22... Nozzle, 25
... Wind barrel component, 26 ... Motor, 27 ... Fan, 28 ... Drying and deodorizing switching operation section, 32 ...
Fan chamber, 33... first wind barrel, 34... second wind barrel, 35, 36... opening, 37, 38... opening, 39, 40... opening, 41... damper, 42... shaft, 43... first damper plate, 4
4... Second damper plate, 45... Actuation piece, 46
...Switch, 51...Square shaft part, 53, 54...
Elastic plate, 55...Deodorizer loading port, 56...Deodorizer cartridge, 57...Heater.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. A cleaning device that spouts cleaning water, a deodorizing device that suctions and deodorizes odor, and a drying device that spews warm air, and the deodorizing device and drying device are commonly used for suction and air blowing. a first wind barrel that communicates with the fan section and is provided with a deodorizing member therein;
A second valve that communicates with the fan portion and has a heater provided therein.
and a damper, the damper has at least two damper plates for controlling opening of the first wind barrel and the second wind barrel to the fan section, and the two damper plates are reversibly opened and closed. By doing so, the first wind barrel and the second wind barrel are selectively opened to the fan section, and when the damper opens the second wind barrel to the fan section, the damper The sanitary cleaning device closes the switch for energizing the heater in the second wind cylinder. 2. The sanitary cleaning device according to claim 1, wherein the damper is provided so as to rotate and switch around an axis, and the switch for energizing the heater is provided at the edge of the opening of the fan portion.